I finally get to post a fuck up. Happened an hour ago, still afraid for my life.

My gf and I were playing mario party 7 for the first time ever. Awful game by the way. Anyways, as most of you probably know, you can pick what direction you character travels around the map. The gf, in 3rd place with nearly 100 coins is making her way around the map.

The star was right in front of her at the crossroad.

As she approached the crossroad to pick up the star, i sarcastically suggested she go right.

Which she immediately did.

I have never seen anyone so angry in my life, and I've worked both as nightclub security and loss prevention in my time. Nor have I ever been so afraid. She ended the game with 0 stars...

"I will kill you in your sleep" she stated.

The rest of the game was spent in dread. Its now 3am and I'm hiding in the bathroom typing this while she makes serial killer noises.

In the game "Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare", released in 2014, there is a character that dies early on in the game. You are at the funeral and the game asks you to "Press [button name] to pay respects", where the button is based on platform (on PC it's 'F', hence the joke).

🦀🦀🦀 YOU'RE MEANT TO PUT IT IN ALL CAPS. OR IF YOU PREFER, PUT A FEW WORDS FROM ROUGHLY THE MIDDLE IN LOWERCASE, SINCE THE ORIGINAL "OBAMA IS GONE" HAD THE WORD "IS" IN A SMALLER FONT THAN THE REST. ALTHOUGH REALLY, THAT WOULD MEAN YOU SHOULD USE SUPERSCRIPT OR SOMETHING ELSE THAT MAKES THE FONT SMALLER ON REDDIT, SINCE THE ORIGINAL STILL HAD "IS" IN CAPS. WHOOPS, I'VE MADE THIS FAR TOO LONG FOR POINTING OUT A SMALL DETAIL. NOW I'VE PROBABLY COME ACROSS AS BEING REALLY PEDANTIC AND RUDE. I WOULD LIKE TO APOLOGISE IF THIS WAS INTERPRETED THAT WAY, I OFTEN HAVE TROUBLE MAKING MY INTENTIONS CLEAR IN MY WORDS. I MEAN, I'M NOT REALLY VERY GOOD WITH WORDS IN GENERAL, AS YOU CAN PROBABLY TELL FROM THE FACT THAT I'VE SPENT THIS LONG POINTING OUT THE MINOR DETAIL OF YOU USING LOWERCASE LETTERS FOR MOST OF YOUR "OBAMA IS GONE" PARODY, WHEN IT WOULD TYPICALLY USE UPPERCASE LETTERS. ON THE TOPIC OF AQUATIC LIFE, I WILL NOW CLAM UP. 🦀🦀🦀

I started playing the latest one with my 6 year old daughter recently, and in a mini game where you guess how many toads go past, she was on the right answer, then I frantically say "No that's wrong! Stand on the other number". She does this, and loses. I get loud wailing tears for the next 30 minutes. Never had I felt so guilty.

Brought my switch over to my uncle's and was playing Mario kart with him and his daughters. As it's their first time we're beating them. Felt bad so I'd fall back and see if I could make a come back. He looks at me and goes "don't let them win, they need to learn how to lose and win on their own" haha

Nothing better than hearing how good they have gotten, or how they got a new game and they start enthusiastically giving tips while it loads, sometimes even preparing me for losing by saying the first time you play it might be hard, only to see the hope slowly drain from their souls as I mercilessly destroy them in every game they put in.

"Man, you're way better than mom and dad, we always beat them."

Well yeah nephew, your mom and dad are fucking scrubs, get fukin rekt.

I thought this was going somewhere completely different, but I'm satisfied as to where it ended up.

My story is more like mercilessly wrecking my little brothers at Halo & Halo 2, letting up only enough to give them a taste of a chance. My one little brother even constantly insisted on trying to 1v1 me, which was boring for me but whatever...

Fast forward to coming home later in my college years. Have been playing a ton of Halo 3 online and in local tournaments and consider myself fairly top-tier. Little bro wants to 1v1.... about 3 minutes into the match I realized my best wasn't even going to cut it.

He's now the best gamer I know and I get super pumped when he wants to squad up and spend some time together (we live on opposite sides of the country). Given I'm still above average, we can roll through most online games these days.

After some time, it hit me: I wasn't trolling and mercilessly thrashing little bro all those years.. I was training a lifelong gaming friend to carry me!

Playing DotA for the first time back when it was still on Warcraft 3 and we spent hours working out the LAN connection. They hype it up the entire time, all our computers are working and we turn it on for the first time and then my older cousin (same age as my youngest uncle) picks Rikkimaru (the one that can go permanently invisible at lvl 6) and annihilates us in a 2v5 with a score of 50-3. We didn't even know you could buy dust and since he recommended the gem (to see invis characters) we all bought gems instead of other items.

Which is strange. 14 year old me would have stomped my 34 old ass any day of the week. I may have the experience, but I don't have the sheer reflexes and innate aggressiveness I had then. God had mercy in my soul, if current self ever had to play KoF 1998 against my 14 year self. Notheless, I still woop kids today.

This uncle is 100% the one that introduced me to competitive gaming via Street Fighter II, Age of Empires, and Quake. I'm just old enough that gaming became a thing when he was a teen so his generation had the most practice when I was a kid...but now I have 30 years of my own experience to compete with xD

The secret is, not only to beat them, but make them think they have a chance before. Playing pool or snooker or what ever? Let them pot a few balls first. Playing fifa or any sports game, keep the scores low. Playing a fighting game? Let them win a round and then bust out a 25 hit combo.

Not only do you get the satisfaction of the win, it’s close enough that they don’t lose interest and stop playing meaning you can slap them down over and over

Same thing I tell my son when he gets mad because I beat him consistently in arcade fighters. "Son, I played this type of game for many YEARS. You've only played for a couple of MONTHS, you should expect to be beaten by me, and you only get better with practice, Practice, PRACTICE. I'm not going to go easy on you because you won't learn if I do."

Then he wants to play Smsh Bros, where he knows he can win most of the time.....

Reminds me of the time I mercilessly destroyed my younger brother in MWII in front of the whole family. 1v1 on Scrapyard. I think I went 25-2. I still remember my mom telling me to lay off when I was up 15-0 lol. Gotta make the baby brother cry

I've done the same to my step sons (just like my uncles did to me). Not letting them win, and slightly taunting them when they loose. Their mum was horrified by that in the beginning, but now they have banded together to beat me in all games, and I am losing more and more to them. They always brag to me about the times they win, and they feel real good about beating me. Pure joy from the accomplishment, and they become better at handling losing. I honestly belive you are doing them a service by giving them something to work for. Just encourage them to do better and tell them what they can do to be better. I can't out snipe the youngest one anymore, if we play on sniper maps I get my ass handed to me over and over. But I still beat them in Mario kart, smash bros and Mario party. But it really is getting harder...

I have pouted a few times and been a bit miffed about it, but in the end it is a video game and I'd rather have a hard fought match that could swing either way, than simply trouncing the opposition (though it does feel good some times). I'm just afraid it will end up with me getting crushed every time in the not so distant future.

Edit:
But yeah, it does change with age. Getting angry at losing to your brother is also easier than with kids. It's a different emotion ;)

It usually is, it just sounded a bit cheesy when I first typed it out. Allow yourself to take ever so slight credit for them getting to the point of beating you, and it becomes a victory for both of you ;)

How did you keep them from getting dejected and quitting before they could win? My 6 year old is a poor loser and brazenly cheats at board games. If I beat her or call out the cheating she quits. I know she's being a little shit and I want to fix it, but don't know how since she'd rather play alone than play fairly with others

Keep at it, our youngest was like that. But if you tell her the consequences of her getting angry means she won't be welcome to play, she will eventually understand (and I do mean eventually, it's never a quick fix). I'm a board game collector, so I have played countless games with the kids. But there are instances (quite a few actually) where we just packed up the game because the kids either was cheating, or being an ass. Family favorite is Sheriff of Nottingham btw ;)

Keep up giving consequences, and eventually she will connect the two and it will pay of for both of you. Good luck my friend ;)

There is a definite difference between allowing scepticism / questioning you as an authority figure and flat out lying to someone when they have learned their entire life to trust you.
Believe me, she will remember this and he will pay many times for what is a pointless win...

Honestly why would you do that? It’s really fucked up to break your young child’s trust just to win Mario Party of all things and in the pettiest way possible. I guarantee she will remember this and it will be the turning point where she no longer has the same faith in you. You weren’t teaching her that games can be ruthless or that the world is unfair, you taught her that you are unfair and that you value a stupid little game over her wellbeing because you lied and cheated. You can’t be trusted with big things if this is what you did with small things.

See. In a way, you did a good thing. You're teaching her to use her own instincts and not to blindly listen to what an adult says without thinking critically. It's a very important skill for her to know that sometimes she is right and the adults are wrong. This will help her as she grows up to separate useful and useless knowledge, and teach her self-reliance.

Random fun fact!
The theme from The Shining is from the Gregorian chant "Dies Irae." It's been used in music for hundreds of years to symbolize hell or "The day of Wrath." It's hard to un-hear once you realize this!
https://youtu.be/0hL1m4hGBVY

Its Ki Ki Ki Ma Ma Ma by the way 😂😂 I argued with my SO about it, im a crazy fan of horror movies, and he was laughing at me for not knowing! Then I saw an interview with the producer and he said its “Ki Ki Ki Ma Ma Ma” and not Ch Ch Ch Ah Ah Ah.

When I play Mario Kart with my wife, I let her win from time to time. She’s always so excited to win, and thank goodness she actually doesn’t pay attention to my screen while I intentionally bump into obstacles waiting for her to close the gap.

I always tell myself I'm going to let my boyfriend win a match in smash if I've been on a big winning streak, but then we get into the match and I completely forget that I had even planned to let him win until I'm at the victory screen going "well I'll let him win this next one."

This is why I've always wanted a gamer partner. I just feel like going all out and playing your hardest against each other is such a cool thing, and friendly competition can really deepen relationships.

Part of the reason I’m always compelled to let my wife win when we are playing Mario Kart is because she’s not really all that into video games.

We have a blast playing Jackbox, Trivial Pursuit, and stuff like that, but she only occasionally wants to play something like Mario or Halo. It’d be a real jerk move for me to play mercilessly when she’s already self-conscious about how she plays games that actually require more complex use of a controller than a game like Fibbage.

First time i played MK8 with my girlfriend, it was her first time playing and she was decent enough and I was quite impressed... then I realised the steering assist was on (why is it on be default?) and it all made sense.

I play Mario Kart with my wife, but I've honestly never let her win. We've always been competitive with each other, though, seeing as how our first date was at Main Event and the first thing we did there was play one of the racing games.

My husband and I wrote our own vows, and kept them secret from each other until the wedding. We both referenced Mario Kart in our vows, and never was I more certain I was marrying the right person.

I vowed to always warn him when a blue shell was coming his way - unless I was the one who threw it. He vowed he would work through any problem that came our way, even if that problem came in the form of three red turtle shells.

Monopoly + Infinity. My best friend and her husband ruined that game for me for many years! Shit happens and sometimes you are forced to pick a player to take stars from. If the AI player has no stars I had to pick one of them. It never, ever ended well. The way these 2, 20-something year olds would turn into 5 yr olds and throw a fit was embarrassing. They play all games like this, cheat up a storm in everything and get mad when caught. I refuse to play anymore with them, but more tantrums ensue. Thankfully I live 8 hours away from them now!

I never understand how people can throw a fit when playing against their friends. I mean sure, it sucks to lose, but at worst you just kinda sulk for a minute and then get back to it. Idk why people always feel like they have Something to prove.

There is a group of people who only have fun playing a game if they win, so if they lose they didn't have fun. And if you did something in the game to make them lose then you took away their fun. I really dislike playing with these types of people.

Mario Party is similar to monopoly except with more comeback factors and minigames. If you're good at minigames, she's going to be mad at the end of every single turn. There's no bargaining so you can't sneak her some extra money or willingly accept bad deals. You can't pretend to be shit at the minigames otherwise she'll get mad you're going easy on her. The plethora of bonus stars at the end of the game means you could go from last place to first place between the end of the last turn and the results page. It's brutal. Totally not speaking from experience.

Although the option to play in teams does mitigate these problems a little bit.

I introduced overcooked to my brother and his 9 year old daughter and 6 year old son. I did pretty well at not yelling at his kids. He was about 50-50. When I yelled at myself for being dumb, I then would explain to the kids that I was yelling at myself and not them LOL. When my brother yelled at them, you could tell that he would figure it out halfway through... and then soften the message up to a learning moment instead of just a yell. LOL.

Must not have scarred them, because they keep asking for me to come over and play again :P

Playing on N64 with my dad as a young kid, I distinctly remember him turning to crying little me and saying "Hey, no, 8th place is best! You won!" And me promptly starting to obnoxiously tease him because he "lost" in 1st place. Which caused him to reveal the truth not a minute later.

My parents were ruthless in not intentionally letting us win anything growing up. Imagine being decimated in Yahtzee or Monopoly by your mother when you didn't understand the concept of houses vs hotels.

The converse is playing with people who brainstorm every suggestion and often end up shirking more advice than they would otherwise have. Those are people I can’t play with personally. Also, why would you assume your loved ones don’t have your best interests at heart?

The minigames are good enough, the boards are fucking hot garbage and they've completely ruined the economy game by handing out coins constantly, making stars piss cheap and removing basically any game changing punishments that could occur - like losing a star to the bowz or someone else through chance time. It's a very bad mario party.

Mario Party 6 > E Gadd’s Garage. Team up with another person, and do maximum turns. Don’t actively try to purchase stars (initially), so as to not invoke rubber band AI mechanics. Eventually (20-25 rounds in), you will be able to have covered all open spaces on the board with down item spaces. The computer will be perpetually broke and in the last turn or two, swoop in and buy however many stars you need to win. You’re welcome.

Also, MP7’s Neon Heights is fantastic, as there is a little randomness to where chests appear and what’s in them. I find this to be the ultimate equalizer (I’m too good at mini games VS my casual friends but usually get screwed and never get stars on that map). Thanos would be pleased at the balance.

You get a choice which direction to move at crossroads. The star was one way, and it would've been an easy star (stars are the whole objective). She followed his obviously terrible advise and went the other way. Her fault

Gaming with an SO is always iffy.bespecially if they don't game. It can be fun, but you'd better play it pretty safe. Wife is bat at games. Competitive? Not fun, She gets mad. Coop action game? Not fun for me because she's terrible. Gotta play something like civ or a Lego game or something haha

Dude play New Super Mario or BattleBlocks I remember playing them with my friend who isn't very good at platformers and it was a blast tbh. I think he ended Mario with like 150 lives lost while I ended with around 25 gained.

Battle Blocks is a 100% Co-op focused game about making it through levels using teamwork, you can customize your guys and whatnot. What's really neat is the game has no time limit or life limit so you can try until you succeed every time. Also I would probably just slow down In Mario, I usually don't mind waiting In Platformers.

Yeah, I've learned that one genre that works particularly well when there are 2 (or more) people of differing skill is the side scrolling beat-em-up. Streets of Rage, Castle Crashers, TMNT, Marvel Ultimate Alliance, etc. Tons of fun.

Recently played Mario party deluxe on the switch with some mates. I was in 3rd place with only 1 star, however my friend in 1st place decided that I would be the best target to steal a star from. Anger ensued. Unfortunately for him i had the controller with the snapshot button on, i proceeded to take 432 snapshots on his console as a form of revenge.

“She has taken the living room and the Second Hall. I have barred the door but cannot hold her for long. The ground shakes...drums, drums in the deep. I cannot get out. The shadow moves in the dark. I cannot get out. She is coming.”

is this what goes to the front page now, a woman getting angry at her boyfriend? I wanna see TIFU with real messed up situations. golden gate bridge collapsed because a dude pissed on its pillars, something of that scale

is this what it goes to the front page now, a woman getting angry at her boyfriend? I wanna see TIFU with real messed up situations. golden gate bridge collapsed because a dude pissed on its pillars, something of that scale

When Pokemon Go had first launched, my little brother and I were playing and he found a pikachu. This was the first time either of us saw one in the game. I jokingly said "if you press the run button, itll chase him to tire him out and you can catch easily". He thought I was serious so he did press the run button and lost the pikachu. He was really upset and I feel guilty to this day

Who bashes Mario party before the newer ones? Isnt Mario party 7 the last one for the Gamecube? Although the first couple are better, lmao I just read an article ranking them last night. My gf never played them and we sometimes play bored games when bored and drunk so i said she should check out Mario party, and i downloaded some emulators and read some reviews on which i should get. I only played sit on the n64 when i was younger. Weird i see it mentioned here now, i downloaded Mario parry 7 first cause I heard it ran the best emulated. Was it really that bad?

"Serial killer noises"
Hmm where have I heard that before?.. that's right! When I told my ex girlfriend I didn't like BTS. She threatened to kill me but she told me she couldn't because my sister was in the next room

Omfg. You made my day.
Dude, just ask for forgiveness and ask her to play fortnite next time.
btw lI don't wanna judge ur relationship, but well, I can't date someone like her personally, PC masterace.

I could imagine the blind trust being shattered as soon as she took that right turn... the immediate flurry of anger and realization... I can relate so well as I also play with my boyfriend, I don’t do well with competitive modes 🙃 neighbors prolly think I’m dying with how much I rage in rocket league 😂

My girlfriend is a a nurse who works in a high risk labor and delivery department at a local hospital. She deals with a lot of different drugs everyday. She also works night which means she sleeps during the day and one time I was playing a video game and got pissed off so I yelled pretty loud (not remembering she was sleeping). She walked in, looked me dead in the face and said “remember that I could kill you in a way that would be hard to trace” and then walked back to the bedroom.

Bro, I’m here to help. You’ll need a garden hose, 6 rolls of duct tape, a mop bucket, 4 crack pipes, and a PB&J sammich with just the crust eaten off of it. Now forget all of that and run for your FUCKING life!

Back at university, me and three housemates were playing a game of Mario Party (can’t remember if it was 1 or 3). One of the housemates (C) was third and went past the Boo space, and had enough coins to steal a star off someone. At that time (and it was towards the end of the game) two of us had stars and the friend in 4th had no stars. Obviously his plan was to steal a star off first place.

Now Boo has 4 options when choosing who to steal a star from: the three other players or ‘your choice’. The friend in 4th says to him “You need to select ‘your choice’, as it is your choice”. Even though the option to choose me was there, C selected ‘your choice’. Boo then goes to 4th player, tries to steal a star and comes back empty handed. Only then did we then explain it meant Boo’s choice and not him.

C was not happy for the rest of the game as the rest of us couldn’t stop laughing what had just happened. He probably would’ve won had he selected the right option.

This reminds me of something that happened to me, albeit my story is a bit happier. I was playing 8 with my friends on the shy guy express level. I landed on a ? space, and a shy guy wanted me to find mouser. The screen zoomed out so I could see all the train cars, and I had to guess which one mouser was in. I had no clue so I tried to look through the windows, but they were so tinted you could barely make out the outline of whats inside. Eventually, I thought I saw mouser in one of them, so I chose it. Turns out it wasn’t mouser but fucking WALUIGI’S HEAD. I was thinking I got totally bamboozled, but the camera panned and it turned out mouser was is in the same car. Got a sweet pile of coins out of that.

My sister just bought Mario party for my parents. My mom was looking forward to the next time we were over so we could play. I told my mom that I will play but be aware that this might end up ripping the family apart.

I had a similar experience we played Overcooked 2 Versus and we were making smoothies. She took some fruit I had already cut so i took her finished smoothie she felt so betrayed and didn't wanna play anymore.

My brothers and I used to play Mario party on the ‘64 growing up. It caused the loudest and angriest arguments we ever had. Our parents banned us from the game for the havoc it caused. To this day, we refuse to play it together.... we are in our 20s and 30s. Surely, it is a cursed game.

I noticed this with my S.O. just yesterday. Playing an MMO and she is watching. I'm not stranger to the game but when my health got low, she called out panicked "You need to eat, you're gonna die!". My knee-jerk reaponse was TO STOP casting in combat and dig through my bags. I'm a fucking healer amd that waa dumb.

No, wait. I am a woman and a feminist and even though I loathe video games to my very bones and have seldom even touched a video game controller (a few times to humor excited sons or grandsons) EVEN I would have known enough to ignore your ridiculous advice and gone straight to get the star. So sorry to your girlfriend, she needs to suck it up and take responsibility. She should have known better.